Members of the West Australian Ballet will be channelling the energy of Manhattan on the beach when they perform their production recognising the works of American choreographer George Balanchine.
The company's show Embraceable You opened on Friday in Perth and will make its way north to perform at Hearson's Cove at the start of next month.
WA Ballet chief executive Steven Roth said Balanchine was considered one of the most iconic personalities in his field in the 20th century.
"He established the New York City Ballet back in the 1930s and he worked with George Gershwin and others, so one of the main works in the program is a piece called Who Cares - it's a melody of 17 Gershwin hit tunes," he said.
"It's more like a Broadway musical than a ballet in its style."
Three out of the four segments in the ballet have been choreographed by Balanchine, with music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Johann Sebastian Bach.
The fourth is a piece put together by the company's principal dancer, Jayne Smeulders.
A group of 12 local dancers will perform the curtain-raiser.
It will be the first time WA Ballet has performed in Karratha since August 2012, when it put on a show on the fifth fairway of the golf course.
"During the day people were still playing golf," Mr Roth said.
Tickets are on sale now for the ballet, which will take place on June 6.
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